Flic French
@justflic.bsky.social
She/her 🏳️🌈 Archivist, librarian, lesbian (not necessarily in that order). Queering collections is the new gay agenda.
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forget the long arc of history bending towards justice, I need the rube goldberg machine of inexorable consequence to endgame the kind of profoundly ironic yet blackly hilarious karmic downfall that would’ve had ancient greek theatergoers hollering at the chorus
January 3, 2026 at 12:28 PM
forget the long arc of history bending towards justice, I need the rube goldberg machine of inexorable consequence to endgame the kind of profoundly ironic yet blackly hilarious karmic downfall that would’ve had ancient greek theatergoers hollering at the chorus
Welcome to The Void™️
(that time between Christmas and New Year when I only know what day it is because the Duolingo Owl has me by the throat over a chess board)
(that time between Christmas and New Year when I only know what day it is because the Duolingo Owl has me by the throat over a chess board)
December 29, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Welcome to The Void™️
(that time between Christmas and New Year when I only know what day it is because the Duolingo Owl has me by the throat over a chess board)
(that time between Christmas and New Year when I only know what day it is because the Duolingo Owl has me by the throat over a chess board)
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Today’s Daily Cartoon, by P. C. Vey. #NewYorkerCartoons
December 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Today’s Daily Cartoon, by P. C. Vey. #NewYorkerCartoons
This, and also, sometimes things have been digitised and you have multiple terabytes of data on networked drives but no way to make them available until other infrastructure can be put in place. Archivists aren’t miracle workers.
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
December 22, 2025 at 5:31 AM
This, and also, sometimes things have been digitised and you have multiple terabytes of data on networked drives but no way to make them available until other infrastructure can be put in place. Archivists aren’t miracle workers.
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What's wrong babe, you've barely touched your machine that makes writers obsolete
December 19, 2025 at 4:05 AM
What's wrong babe, you've barely touched your machine that makes writers obsolete
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John Oliver really was not kidding about the overwhelming rebellious power of just saying “Fuck you, make me.”
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
December 15, 2025 at 8:49 PM
John Oliver really was not kidding about the overwhelming rebellious power of just saying “Fuck you, make me.”
The government certainly aren’t doing a great job of not looking corrupt at the moment…
Scoop: the pro-teen social media ban lobby group 36 Months was funded & co-staffed by its co-founder's ad production firm that was simultaneously making gambling ads
The federal government has ignored calls for a gambling ad ban while pursuing the social media ban.
www.crikey.com.au/20...
The federal government has ignored calls for a gambling ad ban while pursuing the social media ban.
www.crikey.com.au/20...
December 12, 2025 at 3:45 AM
The government certainly aren’t doing a great job of not looking corrupt at the moment…
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"what will be more devastating to lose in a security breach?"
December 10, 2025 at 12:37 AM
"what will be more devastating to lose in a security breach?"
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This is going to be an absolute disaster. It is colossally stupid, unethical in the extreme, and it’s going to ruin lives.
EXCLUSIVE: Funding and support plans for national disability insurance scheme participants will be generated by a computer program and staff will have no discretion to amend them, under a major overhaul of the NDIS to be rolled out next year, @australia.theguardian.com can reveal.
December 3, 2025 at 12:37 AM
This is going to be an absolute disaster. It is colossally stupid, unethical in the extreme, and it’s going to ruin lives.
Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls should be a banned song in psychiatrist waiting rooms the world over. Still an improvement from the old place’s Christian radio station though…
December 1, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls should be a banned song in psychiatrist waiting rooms the world over. Still an improvement from the old place’s Christian radio station though…
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If medieval guilds and fraternities had inflatable balloon technology, they would have gone so hard. Gigantic balloon of the side wound of Christ, St Lucy with her eyes as two separate balloons, Margaret and her dragon
November 27, 2025 at 2:35 PM
If medieval guilds and fraternities had inflatable balloon technology, they would have gone so hard. Gigantic balloon of the side wound of Christ, St Lucy with her eyes as two separate balloons, Margaret and her dragon
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Viola Ford Fletcher, who as one of the last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre in Oklahoma spent her later years seeking justice for the deadly attack by a white mob on the thriving Black community where she lived as a child, has died. She was 111. https://to.pbs.org/43OHYaQ
Viola Ford Fletcher, one of the last survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre, dies at age 111
Fletcher spent her later years seeking justice for the deadly attack by a white mob on the thriving Black community where she lived as a child.
www.pbs.org
November 24, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Viola Ford Fletcher, who as one of the last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre in Oklahoma spent her later years seeking justice for the deadly attack by a white mob on the thriving Black community where she lived as a child, has died. She was 111. https://to.pbs.org/43OHYaQ
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you have the dancing plague
bleeding feet, won’t see middle age
dancing plague
reasons for it are still opaque
oh yeah
bleeding feet, won’t see middle age
dancing plague
reasons for it are still opaque
oh yeah
November 22, 2025 at 5:43 AM
you have the dancing plague
bleeding feet, won’t see middle age
dancing plague
reasons for it are still opaque
oh yeah
bleeding feet, won’t see middle age
dancing plague
reasons for it are still opaque
oh yeah
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At the end of the day, if the “concern” you have about your country or neighbourhood is that there are too many Black or Brown people living there, then that is racism. Yearning to make the place you live more white is, in fact, white supremacy. Just saying.
September 21, 2025 at 12:30 AM
At the end of the day, if the “concern” you have about your country or neighbourhood is that there are too many Black or Brown people living there, then that is racism. Yearning to make the place you live more white is, in fact, white supremacy. Just saying.
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I know this is pedantic, but Kim Davis was not "jailed for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses." She was jailed for contempt of court because she refused to follow a court order (she had stopped issuing all marriage licenses). NYT makes it sound like the Woke Police broke down her door.
November 7, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I know this is pedantic, but Kim Davis was not "jailed for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses." She was jailed for contempt of court because she refused to follow a court order (she had stopped issuing all marriage licenses). NYT makes it sound like the Woke Police broke down her door.
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frankly why tf are we doing fireworks at all. It’s called Bonfire Night. get your ex’s photographs and your childhood Harry Potter books and light that shit up
I like fireworks but they shouldn't be sold to the general public. Obviously some twat's going to lob one at a paramedic. Garden fireworks are always shit anyway. Go and give the rotary club a fiver and watch a good display in a field with a candyfloss machine and a tombola.
'Notable reduction' in Bonfire Night disruption
November 6, 2025 at 9:27 AM
frankly why tf are we doing fireworks at all. It’s called Bonfire Night. get your ex’s photographs and your childhood Harry Potter books and light that shit up
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Absolutely not. Conflating mental illness with white supremacy and the settler colonial ideology it rode in on is garbage. Western society is a system of hierarchies that require explanations for why some are allowed to control others. It is not a mental illness or personal failing
I’m convinced that hate, racism, misogyny and telling food stamp recipients what they can and cannot eat/purchase is a mental disorder.
November 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Absolutely not. Conflating mental illness with white supremacy and the settler colonial ideology it rode in on is garbage. Western society is a system of hierarchies that require explanations for why some are allowed to control others. It is not a mental illness or personal failing
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I’m sorry, but if your science fiction show isn’t a front for puppet makers of the world competing to become the next Jim Henson then I’m not interested.
November 2, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I’m sorry, but if your science fiction show isn’t a front for puppet makers of the world competing to become the next Jim Henson then I’m not interested.
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“We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically.”
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
www.ru.nl
November 1, 2025 at 10:45 PM
“We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically.”
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Remember today that some ghosts may just be trying to speak to you in Latin.
October 31, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Remember today that some ghosts may just be trying to speak to you in Latin.
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Tolkien is not perfect but he did, in fact, hate the fucking Nazis.
DHS just posted a Lord of the Rings meme as an appeal to join ICE
October 29, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Tolkien is not perfect but he did, in fact, hate the fucking Nazis.
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British Library staff are out on strike from Monday 27 October until Sunday 9 November over pay: please do not undermine their action by attending this exhibition (or any other events at the BL) during that time. www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...
October 25, 2025 at 6:10 PM
British Library staff are out on strike from Monday 27 October until Sunday 9 November over pay: please do not undermine their action by attending this exhibition (or any other events at the BL) during that time. www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...
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“I’ve stopped killing old people and hoarding their bones”
October 24, 2025 at 5:23 AM
“I’ve stopped killing old people and hoarding their bones”